Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Means to an End

Plans and to do lists are just a means to an end, or
something we create to give us the feeling that such a thing actually exists.
The truth is that it doesn’t or that if it does, we will never know it.

People who look happy on the internet aren’t. They are the
same as you. The only people who actually qualify as ‘happy’ are the people who
are content with their own complete oblivion.

We set goals we make lists and we have to keep making new
lists but nothing ever gets done. We can make two million lists. We probably
will in time.

And we will keep ticking things off and writing new things down
and never ever get anything done because we’re just pretending like there’s
things to do. We want to be as busy as possible and do as little as possible at
the same time. We want to pursue our dreams but we don’t want to crush them in
the process.

We don’t want to prove the truth that if anyone ever did have a
simple and innocent dream and it was in reality naïve and impossible and
entirely under-calculated. That these childhood dreams we didn’t even realise
we had, these things we expected to happen in our lives were part of a world that
never actually existed. They were part of a home and a family that never
existed either. Part of simplified, idealised concepts, like lists, that we use
to try and make sense of our lives, to mould it into something we can feel ok
about.

We all know that at the end of the day none of it really
exists. Nobody ever really loves anybody else. Nobody even knows what love is.
Nobody even loves themselves so how could they care about anyone else. Love is
just appreciating that someone once cared about you. It doesn’t mean anything
and their care and your care are either inconsequential or detrimental to one
another.

We have such high expectations of other people. We expect
them to care about us. We expect that if we put a certain amount of time, of
effort, of care, into other people that they should owe us something similar in
return. This is not true. This does not mean that they won’t or that they
shouldn’t, or that we should spend our lives expecting to be cheated and
mistreated, but that we should do things with an absolute zero expectation,
neither negative nor positive. As independent beings who can be happy when one
other being has tried to make a similar connection, and that that is all it is.

Nobody deserves anything that they get at all. Nobody should
expect to get anything either. Everything is chance and karma. They are the
same thing too.